It represents a domain with limited but detectable user traffic or DNS activity. While it might belong to small legitimate services, threat actors also leverage such domains early in their campaigns before reputation systems can classify them.
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It represents a domain with limited but detectable user traffic or DNS activity. While it might belong to small legitimate services, threat actors also leverage such domains early in their campaigns before reputation systems can classify them.
These domains show minimal and inconsistent access patterns. They are often short-lived, used in phishing or malware delivery, and rarely indexed by search engines. The lack of sustained visibility or backlinks makes them suspicious when correlated with other threat indicators.
It refers to domains with near-zero legitimate traffic or presence — often newly registered or reactivated after long inactivity. In SOC operations, such domains are considered high-risk due to their frequent use in disposable or single-purpose malicious infrastructure.
A realistic shape of the entry the engine appends to the risk_signals array when this signal fires. Evidence keys are subgroup-default; per-signal overrides documented in the API reference.
{
"slug": "bad_popularity",
"name": "Weak Popularity Domain",
"group": "popularity_and_backlink",
"subgroup": "popularity_score",
"direction": "malicious",
"evidence": {
"tranco_rank": 482103,
"tranco_rank_band": "100k-1m",
"organic_traffic_band": "low",
"regional_rank_top_country": "US"
}
}2 other signals share the same subgroup. They detect related behaviors and often co-fire on the same IOC.
It refers to globally recognized, high-traffic domains with verified ownership and a long operational history—such as go…
It refers to a domain that holds significant reputation and visibility within a specific country or region. Such domains…
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